Improvement in carpenters  shooting-boards



NITED STATES PATENT Innen.

JOSEPH JONES, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARPENTERS SHOOTING-BOARDS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH JONES, of the city of Newark, in the county of Essex and State ot' New Jersey, have invented certain Improvements in the Implement technically termed by workers in wood a Shooting- Board, and I do hereby declare the following to .ze a full and exact description of the same, reference being herein had to the drawings accompanying this speciication, making part of the same.

The nature of my improvement consists in attachments which adapt the board to the shooting or planing at any required angle in the direction required by the grain of the wood, and in securing the plane to the board in a way to ease its motion, at the same time rendering it more stable or solid at its work.

In the drawings, Figure l shows the board and the plane as when ready for use. Fig. 2 represents the end of the plane with the peculiar] y formed attachment thereto. Fig. 3 shows the bed'lpiece to which the plane is connected, with the providings for holding the plane securely thereto; also is shown an end viewof the bed-piece and an end view ofthe shooting board, Fig. l. Fig. 4 shows the various parts used in the construction of the stop against which the piece to be planed is held.

The base-board, as is usual, has the partA elevated above the part B, the difference being increased in my improvement to admit under the plane O the bed-piece D, Fig. 3, the edge z of the bed-piece D being fitted to and sliding in the groove y in the edge ot the elevated part A of the base-board.

The groove is shown in the end view of the base-board, Fig. 3.

The edge has a projection, w, on the under side, as shown in the end view in Fig. 3, which slides in the V-shaped groove t. (Seen in the end view ofthe base-board at Fig. 3.)

On each end of the plane C is affixed a pro,

jecting piece, s, Fig. 2, which, when the plane is placed in the bed-piece D, is between the ends of the set-screws r, by which the plane is held down firmly to the bed-piece. rlhe piece s being wider at the bottom than at the top, every turn ot' the screws r tends to pressing the plane close down to the bed-piece D, the set-screws being attached to the bed-piece by their nuts being formed in the projections p on the bed-piece D.

When necessary varied inclinations of the face of the plane O can be had by inclined bed pieces, and the same result is attainable by the use of beveled pieces laid on the baseboard under the piece to be planed.

The stop against which the board is placed to be planed has a face-piece, o, Fig. 4, has on its back a projecting plate, n, said plate hav-v ing a flange in which are two slots, through which the two screws m pass into the facepiece o, by which means are provided for the adjustment of the face-piece required when planing at different angles.

The under side of the projecting plate n is formed as a groove of the required width to admit the piece 7c, Fig. 4, upon which the projecting plate n is movable.

The edge view of the piece 7c shows on the under side a pin, j, which tits the holes t' on the base-board, Fig. l, to keep the stop in the desired place required Aby various angles, the whole combined stop being secured to the baseboard by the thumb-screw E, Fig. 4, which passes through the slots h, (seen in the baseboard,) the projecting piece n, and the slide k, theI head being below and the nut on the upper side.

In the provisions above described for the adjustment of the parts of a shooting-board necessary for angular planing and for the steadiness and security of the plane, I do not conne myself to either metal or wood in any of the parts, using the one or the other as the workman chooses.

For convenience a projection, g, is attached to the end of the stop face-piece o, to form a support when the piece being planed is of an inconvenient length tobe held steady by the hand of the operator.

The placing of ahandle upon the side of the plane that is uppermost when performing the operation of shooting joints on the board gives the workman important advantage over the ordinary manner of grasping the body ot' the 

